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Heroica Matamoros

Matamoros, officially known as Heroica Matamoros, is a city in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, and the municipal seat of the homonymous municipality.

Heroica Matamoros
Heroica Matamoros · Gzzz (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Matamoros, officially known as Heroica Matamoros, is a city in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, and the municipal seat of the homonymous municipality. It is on the southern bank of the Rio Grande, directly across the border from Brownsville, Texas, United States.

Matamoros is the second largest city in the state of Tamaulipas.

As of 2016, Matamoros had a population of 520,367.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Heroica Matamoros

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Matamoros

    The Diocese of Matamoros-Reynosa is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the northeast part of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, along the border with Texas, United States. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Monterrey.

    100 m · diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Diocese of Brownsville

    The Diocese of Brownsville, erected in 1965, is a diocese in southeastern Texas in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.

    6 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Texas's 34th congressional district

    Texas's 34th congressional district is a United States congressional district in the southern part of Texas that was created as a result of the 2010 census. The first candidates ran in the 2012 elections; the winner, Democrat Filemon Vela Jr., was seated for the 113th United States Congress.

    6 km · U.S. House district for Texas · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Our Lady of Refuge Cathedral, Matamoros

    The Cathedral of Our Lady of Refuge, also known as the Matamoros Cathedral, is the main Catholic church in the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is the seat of the Diocese of Matamoros-Reynosa.

    100 m · church in Matamoros, Mexico · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    University of Texas at Brownsville

    The University of Texas at Brownsville was an educational institution located in Brownsville, Texas. The university was on the land once occupied by Fort Brown.

    2.5 km · defunct university · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Texas Southmost College

    Texas Southmost College is a public junior college located in Brownsville, Texas, United States.

    2.4 km · community college in Brownsville, US · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Gateway International Bridge

    Gateway International Bridge is one of three international bridges that cross the U.S.-Mexico border between the cities of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas. It is owned and operated by Cameron County.

    2.2 km · bridge in Brownsville, Texas · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    United States Court House, Custom House, and Post Office

    The former United States Court House, Custom House, and Post Office in Brownsville, Texas, also known as the Old Federal Courthouse, is a former courthouse of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and currently serves as Brownsville City Hall. Completed in 1931, the building replaced the 1892 U.S. Court House, Custom House, and Post Office of that city, which was razed in 1931.

    2.6 km · building in Brownsville, Texas, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Museo del Agrarismo Mexicano

    The Museum of Mexican Agrarianism is an free admission establishment of the Instituto Matamorense para la Cultura y las Artes dedicated to the history of agrarianism and land reform in Mexico. It is located on the Ejido Lucio Blanco, Heroica Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and was founded on 10 April 2002.

    6.1 km · Mexican Agrarianism Museum · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Estadio El Hogar

    Estadio El Hogar is a multi-purpose stadium in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. It served as the home stadium of Liga Premier football club Gavilanes de Matamoros.

    6.6 km · stadium in Mexico · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Heroica Matamoros

Airports
Monterrey (MTY), 261 km
Stations
Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport, 8.4 km
  • Monterrey → Heroica Matamoros
    282 km · quickest by road, 4h 54m · MX$275–370
  • Mexico City → Heroica Matamoros
    736 km · quickest by road, 15h 44m · MX$820–1,090
  • Querétaro → Heroica Matamoros
    614 km · quickest by road, 15h 20m · MX$810–1,070
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Heroica Matamoros

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Heroica Matamoros. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThough there are no ferries to take you to the island, if you own a boat, simply direct yourself to the southernmost Texas coast.

From Wikivoyage: Brownsville (Texas), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,233 km
  2. 02
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,269 km
  3. 03
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,332 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    2,028 km
  5. 05
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    2,781 km

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